Posted on 03/31/2025 7:37:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941.
This Hubble image shows NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy some 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The color image is composed of near-infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Six filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.
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NGC 4941 is located approximately 67 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo.
Also known as AGC 530009, IRAS 13016-0516, LEDA 45165 or UGCA 321, the galaxy is 60,000 light-years across.
It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on April 24, 1784.
NGC 4941 is a member of two groups of galaxies: the NGC 4941 group and the NGC 4697 group.
“Because this galaxy is nearby, cosmically speaking, Hubble’s keen instruments are able to pick out exquisite details such as individual star clusters and filamentary clouds of gas and dust,” the Hubble astronomers said.
“The Hubble data used to construct this image were collected as part of an observing program that investigates the star formation and stellar feedback cycle in nearby galaxies.”
“As stars form in dense, cold clumps of gas, they begin to influence their surroundings.”
“Stars heat and stir up the gas clouds in which they are born through winds, starlight, and — eventually, for massive stars — by exploding as supernovae.”
“These processes are collectively called stellar feedback, and they impact the rate at which a galaxy can form new stars.”
“As it turns out, stars aren’t the only entities providing feedback in NGC 4941,” they added.
“At the heart of this galaxy lies an active galactic nucleus (AGN) — a supermassive black hole feasting on gas.”
“As the black hole amasses gas from its surroundings, the gas swirls into a superheated disc that glows brightly at wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum.”
“Similar to stars — but on a much, much larger scale — active galactic nuclei shape their surroundings through winds, radiation, and powerful jets, altering not only star formation but also the evolution of the galaxy as a whole.”
If your dead or never born does any of that exist?
What else exists?
Musk/SpaceX offered a free rocket ship/launch to repair and update the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hussein/Biden Regime turned it down (creeps). Hubble HAD 6 gyroscopes. It needs 3 to keep oriented and on target. The extra three were backups. Hubble is down to two gyros. Besides updating the gyros, it would be amazing to update as much as possible. Hubble’s systems were designed for relatively easy upgrades. There are large, rectangular “boxes” with components inside. On one of the Shuttle update missions, they were able to open the large side doors, slide out the older box/components, and then slide in the new. Between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, we could get all of the new “stuff” up their, and keep Hubble flying for more decades.
You didn’t mention infinity at all
You said the universe was an organism and wondered what its purpose was.
Wtf are you talking about?
look man, go get a herring fish sandwix
EXCELLENT POINT.
THANKS FOR MAKING US REALIZE THAT.
Tax collectors..................
One maybe two............three tops................
Got created galaxies so we would go like, wtf they go forever and ever.
They must go on so far with no end they must repreat.
That’s what God did
We don’t know the physical shape of the universe, but it could be a sphere.
If it is spherical, then we should be able to see all the way around it.
One of those tiny blobs of star clusters we see off in the far distance, could in fact be US!....................
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If that was presented to me like a Rorschach Test I’d say “cream cheese danish”.
Maybe they watch their version of “the view” in that galaxy
Pubs? In Virgo? Probably a dry galaxy.
FRiend, That is NOT His middle name.
Perhaps you should get to know Him on a more personal basis.
From Philippians 2:10-11:
“...that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
The gyros for positioning Skylab each weighed 3,500 pounds and spun at 6,600 RPM. Hubble’s are probably a bit smaller.
So out of the billions and billions of galaxies, our galaxy is the only one in the entire universe that has a planet with human life?
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